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NOTICE. THE ENTRANCE to our Won_«use wiU be from CATHEDRAL SQUARE instead of from Hereford street, as hitherto. The Union Insurance Company have purchased our premises, and pending our final removal, of which due notice will be givfen, they *—loccupy the Hereford street frontage. ,„, ' 830 34 LIGHTBAND, ALLAN, - CO. NEW SEASON'S TEAS. ; WOOD, SHAND, _ CO. have received advices of the arrival of their first consignment of New Season's Teas per s.s. Somerset, at Melbourne, which..teas may be expected to arrive at Lyttelton on or about the Bth September. 8-30 36 UNION FERE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OP NEW ZEALAND. Head Office.HEREFORD STREET, CHRISTCHURCH. APPLICATIONS are invited from gentlemen willing to act as Agents for this Company in the various townß and districts in Canterbury Province, same to be made by letter, addressed to the General Manager. W. DEVENISH MEARES, General Manager. Christchurch, 29th August, 1877. 8-30 61 BANK OF AUSTRALABIA, INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER, 1835. THE SOUTH RAKAIA BRANCH of this Bank will be WITHDRAWN on and after Monday, tbe 3rd September. 8-25 9848 E. W. MORRAH, Inspector. TO DRAPERS, TAILORS, AND CUTTERS. DE VEE E' S Handbook of Cutting Devere's complete manual of cutting Devere's modern British liveries Devere's report of fashion Devere's graduated tapes ON SALE AT 9-1 136 R. SHANNON'S, Colombo street. TO STOCKOWNERS AND CAPITALISTS. THE Undersigned has FOR SALE several very valuable FREEHOLD PROPERTIES in the North Island, ranging from [ 4£o to 25,000 acres, of which he will be happy to supply particulars to intending purchasers. . JOHN LEWIS, 9-1 132 Hereford street, Christchnrch. | FLOWERS. FLOWERS. FLOWERS. CH OI C E SEEDS Free by post. 12 packets Choice Annuals for 3s 12 packets very choicest, including Balsams, Phlox Drummondii, Double Portulaca, Double Zinnia, &c., for ss. Vegetable Seeds, finest quality, all tested bei fore offered for sale. Catalogues of flower seeds and bedding plants on application. 1 T. GEEENAWAY, 9-1 174 Whateley road, Christchnrch. BOOKS FOR SALE ON Architecture, Engineering, Building, Carpentry, Joinery, and illuminating, Boileau's and Chambers' Tables, Cyclopedia of Agriculture, Ogilvie's Dictionaries, Smedley on Hydropathy, Carlyle complete, Life of Finney, new stock Sankey's Hymns. R. BINSTEAD, Albion House, Cashel street West, Christchnrch. ' 9-1 184 rTIHE WEEKLY T>RESS. SEPTEMBER Ist. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Leading Articles. —The Board of Education Report—Taxation—Miscellaneous Bilk — The* Railway Tariff—Charges against Ministers —Mr Hobbs'a Conversion —The Secrecy of Telegrams. Reports—Chamber of Commerce—Agricultural and Pastoral Association—Acclimatisation Society—Ellesmere Bacon Curing Company—Borough Councils —Road Boards —The Courts. Telegrams. — The Wax —Insurrection in Crete—Fatal Coal mine Explosion at Greymouth — The Victorian Budget — The " Waka Maori "■ Libel Case—Wreck of the Schooner St. Eilda —English Intelligence. Correspondence—A New Temperance Bill — Mount Somers Bailway—Catholics and the . New Education Bill—The Public Squares— Railway Management. The Yeoman—Mount Somers Ploughing Mateh —Animal Parasites—Sheep the Mainstay of Agriculture—Chicks—Planting Corn in Drills—l he Use in Keeping Pedigrees—How to Get Rid of Chicken LiceCold Bits —Decay of Timber—Heifers from Heifers —Dairy Cows. The Garden—Memoranda by Mr Chudleyr* Hanging Baskets. The Sportsman—Races to oome—Entries, Acceptances, &c.—Sporting Notes by Sinbad—The Northumberland Plate—The Late Admiral Rous—Athletics •- Oxford and Cam* bridge Sports—Cricket: Oxford and Cam- ■ bridge Cricket Match—Football: Dunedin v Wellington—Canterbury Football. Entb rtainstents. —Notes by Triboulet—Art Musical, and Dramatic Gossip. Literature—Poetry—A Very Strange Night —Our Picnic. Ladies' Column — Working and Making Work—lnjurious Positions for Children — High Heels—The Home. General —Extraordinary Alpine Aocidents — The Parliamentary Prisoner Jones—The Defences of the Bosphorus. miscellaneous. Science. Varieties. ■ -■ ■ Weekly Summary. The Loafer in tjhb Street. Notabilia —A Marine Mystery—Associated Pressmen —Missing Friends—The Sporting Season—A Daily " Hansard." Latest Shipping, Commercial, and Produce Markets. 9-1 165